Behind the glass facade of a modern St. Charles Avenue building, you'll find Dolce Vita Wood Fired Pizzeria. The dining room is spartan, with its concrete floor and rough-hewn wooden tables. But the ...

Bogdan Mocanu throws his Neapololitan-style pizza in the air before it goes into the wood fired oven at his new restaurant, Dolce Vita, on Tuesday, November 12, 2013. Mocanu made a name for himself in ...

Bogdan Mocanu's Dolce Vita Wood Fired Pizzeria began as a Baton Rouge truck with a wood-burning oven on an attached trailer. That unusual venture is only one of the odd episodes in the biography of ...

I'm looking forward to eating at the new Pizza Domenica, which is set to open Thursday (April 24), as much as the next pizza geek. The quality of the pizza has gotten better in New Orleans in recent ...

U.S. prosecutors say a Romanian man has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for his role in a multi-state bank ATM skimming scheme.Bogdan Mocanu, who was living in New York City, also was ...

On Friday (Nov. 7), Bogdan Mocanu made his last pizza at Dolce Vita, the St. Charles Avenue wood-fired pizzeria he opened last fall. Dolce Vita will continue, but Mocanu needed a break. "There's ...